Disrupting Savagism

by Aldama, Arturo J.; Mignolo, Walter D.; Saldivar-Hull, Sonia; Silverblatt, Irene

• ISBN13: 9780822327486
• ISBN10: 0822327481
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"The 'savage' speaks, gains voice, and articulates resistance to the forces of oppression in Aldama's "Disrupting Savagism," It is relentless in its rigor and perspicacious in its investigation as it dismantles the social discourses that ascribe Native Americans and mixed bloods 'savage.' Aldama's efforts allow the Mestizo and Native American to take hold of the apparatus of representation and affirm self-identity. "Disrupting Savagism" is an important work, long needed to fill the gap in our collective understanding, a work that will have broad and long-lasting impact. I can think of no other work that addresses this material so capably and so thoroughly. An intelligent and powerful work."--Alfred Arteaga, author of "Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Mapping Subalternity in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands

The Chiana/o and the Native American "Other" Talk Back: Theories of the Speaking Subject in a (Post?) Colonial Context

When the Mexicans Talk, Who Listens? The Crisis of Ethnography in Situating Early Voices from the U.S./Mexico Borderlands

Narrative Disruptions: Decolonization, Dangerous Bodies, and the Politics of Space

Counting Coup: Narrative Acts of (Re)Claiming Identity in Ceremony

Toward a Hermeneutics of Decolonization: Reading Radical Subjectivities in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

A Border Coda: Dangerous Bodies, Liminality, and the Reclamation of Space in Star Maps

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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